[Editor’s note: This map from the Economist suffers from stiff adherence to a limited color palette. ![]() Posted in Best practices, Flash, General, Google Map Mashup, iphone, Mapping, Self promo, Software | Comments Off on Color Oracle Review + The Economist’s Red-Green Fixation Tags: "Green", apple, bernie, color, color blindness, color oracle, curious chap, Design, hisham abboud, red, red green, shape, the economist The January 16th, 2010 edition has a particularly egregious example: Not only does this make it hard to read on my evening subway commute, they are completely illegible for color blind readers. The Economist, on the other hand, persists in NOT using shape to amplify the color differences in their charts and maps. Greg described how Apple was using red and green circles (same shape) to illustrate which stores had iPhone availability, and how they later switched to using different shapes”:īy using shape to reinforce (overload) the color difference, green and red can still be used to take advantage of those hue’s strong cultural significance (green = go, red = stop). Nice endorsement, thanks! Hisham uses an Apple iPhone website chart to emphasize his point: “My first brush with what one can do for color blind persons was a 2007 post by Greg Raiz. ![]() ![]() No self-respecting programmer, UX practitioner, or web site designer should be without Hisham Abboud over at the Curious Chap blog promo’d Color Oracle, the software that the talented Bernhard Jenny programmed (with my sometimes helpful nagging) for simulating color blindness.
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